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Emily Fire, June 2018 Mora

Out · last measured on 28 Jun 2018

The fire started on 28 June 2018 in Mora, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 3,373 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 44th largest in New Mexico since 2016 (of 204 with a page). Number 141 in United States in 2018, of 511.

Burnt area
3,373ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
28 Jun 2018 – 28 Jun 2018
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
28 Jun
2018
Heat detections
119
in a single hotspot: 18 MW
Danger at start
62
Extreme · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 28 Jun28 Jun

The weather it burned in

32°high
55km/h · peak gust
8%lowest humidity

It had gone 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 17.6 mm on 23 Jul.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Mora where it started
    3,384 ha reached on 30 Jun
    0.7 %

Burnt area inside each county, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
28 Jun 31.1 °C 9 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
29 Jun after 28.7 °C 9 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
30 Jun after 28.4 °C 8 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
1 Jul after 26.3 °C 25 % 42 km/h 1.5 mm High 28
2 Jul after 27.0 °C 19 % 55 km/h 2.2 mm High 24
3 Jul after 26.4 °C 19 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
4 Jul after 28.7 °C 14 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
5 Jul after 24.3 °C 34 % 44 km/h 5.4 mm Low 7
6 Jul after 23.6 °C 36 % 34 km/h 1.3 mm Moderate 12
7 Jul after 26.2 °C 30 % 53 km/h 2.0 mm Moderate 18
8 Jul after 25.0 °C 22 % 34 km/h 0.6 mm High 32
9 Jul after 24.5 °C 26 % 35 km/h 0.6 mm High 26
10 Jul after 26.7 °C 26 % 35 km/h 0.5 mm High 32
11 Jul after 25.9 °C 28 % 39 km/h 2.6 mm Moderate 12
12 Jul after 24.6 °C 31 % 36 km/h 8.2 mm Very low 4
13 Jul after 24.4 °C 40 % 38 km/h 9.3 mm Very low 2
14 Jul after 25.8 °C 33 % 29 km/h 0.7 mm Low 7
15 Jul after 25.6 °C 28 % 27 km/h 0.6 mm Moderate 15
16 Jul after 23.4 °C 39 % 31 km/h 4.1 mm Very low 3
17 Jul after 25.2 °C 32 % 31 km/h 0.5 mm Low 9
18 Jul after 30.0 °C 19 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
19 Jul after 31.1 °C 14 % 44 km/h 1.0 mm High 23
20 Jul after 30.5 °C 18 % 37 km/h 2.2 mm Moderate 18
21 Jul after 31.2 °C 15 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
22 Jul after 31.6 °C 14 % 35 km/h 1.0 mm High 31
23 Jul after 26.3 °C 35 % 34 km/h 17.6 mm Very low 3

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 21 Jun 2018
After · 5 Jul 2018

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

Detections table · 119Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Emily fire last?
It burned between 28 June 2018 and 28 June 2018: 1 day, according to the start date recorded by United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) and the heat detections seen by satellite.
How much area did it burn?
The official perimeter published by United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) is 3,373 hectares (33.7 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Mora (3,384 ha, 0.7 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 31.6 °C, humidity dropped to 8 % and gusts hit 55 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 62, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the official burnt perimeter of United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC, public domain), NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of United States. It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

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Where this data comes from

The perimeter is official and in the public domain. For past years it comes from MTBS (Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity), run by the U.S. Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service, which map it on Landsat and Sentinel-2 imagery. For the current and last year it comes from WFIGS at the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC): incident perimeters mapped by fire crews, aircraft and imagery. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. County boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Public Domain). The area per county is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from official figures.